Tagged Questions

Use this tag for questions about attitudes and doctrines regarding traditional marriage (one male and one female). For non-traditional marriages, use the appropriate tags, such as polygamy or same-sex-marriage.

My "pretend" grandpa of many years has a pension and survivors insurance that he wants me to have. He hurriedly wrtote his will recently and is sorry he did what he did. He's 91 and dying of cancer. ...

How does Catholicism handle the desired marriage of a Catholic to a baptized, yet non-Christian partner?
As I understand it (i.e.: what Wikipedia told me), the Catholic church defines three versions ...

1 Corinthians 7:10-15 does not mention about fallen away or disfellowshiped spouses.
If a baptized believing spouse falls away from God and leaves the church, into which group of people does this new ...

As far as I know, Martin Luther in his "Vom ehelichem Leben" indicates that marriage is not a sacrament. Calvin mentioned in the Institutes that it was Gregory I who denoted marriage as a sacrament.
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My Catholic daughter will marry an Orthodox boy in an Orthodox church in Macedonia. After this ceremony we will go to Slovakia to continue the celebration. Can we celebrate a Mass in a Catholic church ...

Suppose a Catholic guy marries a non-Catholic outside the Catholic church, then years later they divorce. Can that Catholic guy get married again to someone else (a Catholic female) in the Catholic ...

The scenario
A brother and sister are separated at birth and grow up not knowing of each other. Years later they meet and unbeknownst that they are brother and sister, fall in love, marry, and have ...

Consider the following case:
A Catholic woman marries an unbelieving man (in particular, a man not baptised in any Christian denomination) in a state ceremony. Following an adulterous episode on the ...

If an Eastern Orthodox parishioner becomes a widow(er) and decides to remarry, what are the differences between what it will look like in their first and second marriage? What are the reasons for the ...

I am dating a girl from Israel, and considering becoming a Christian later via baptism. For practical reasons, if we do not get married, she will eventually have to go back to Israel. Therefore I am ...

This is the opposite of Justification for Involvement of State in Marriage
On what biblical basis can one argue that: "marriage is a covenant before God between a man and a woman -- and has nothing ...

Is, according to St. Paul in 1 Corinthians 7, the state of virginity more meritorious than that of marriage? Catholics think it is, and some (all?) Protestants think it is not. Why?
For example, the ...

I've seen a few things lampooning John Boswell's interpretation of adelphopoiesis as a quasi civil union between men. However, I've not seen much on his side other than it being used by Christian gay ...

Why does Paul say that a husband is "divided" between pleasing his wife and pleasing God? Can't a husband please God by pleasing his wife (or vice versa)? Or is that what Paul meant?
1 Cor. 7:32-3:
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I was disfellowed in 2010, because of having a girlfriend outside the congregation. In 2011 we had a marriage at home affairs and in 2012 I was happily reinstated with my wife. I was jobless then and ...

A nun in my Catholic school taught us that Mary was 14 and Joseph was 17 and that this was not atypical for the day. Also that in Joseph's case his Marriage to Mary was his second.
Would there be any ...

Here's something I've got no idea about. In the case where one party is married in a Baptist Church but divorced and the other party has no encumbrances. Barring quarrelsome arguments I can't answer ...

What is the differentiation between " sons of God" and "daughters of men" referred to in Genesis 6:1-2. Is it that there were extra-terrestrial human-like beings at the beginning of creation on earth ...

If - say as the result of a pre-cana course - the priest finds out one of the parties is not a virgin can the church then deny a marriage application? Does the priest have the liberty to ask? Does one ...

The Old Testament records many instances of men having concubines or many wives. Why did having concubines not fall under the sin of adultery?
2 Samuel 5:13 - "After he left Hebron, David took more ...

As I understand it, the Catholic Church teaches that there are 3 purposes to a marriage: (According to http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=5822)
Procreation and education ...